An important update on me, Minions. I've been going through some stuff for a long time and could use some help. If you can donate, great, but sharing on other platforms is equally as helpful. Love you all so much.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/zs-journey-to-reclaim-freedom?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet-first-launch
Pretty accurate..
That moment when one of your MCs makes a decision you hadn’t planned on and now you both have to live with the consequences of her actions
Hey! I’m gonna assume you guys like using Tumblr correct? What about AO3? TikTok? Or any other platform that fandom spaces thrive? Then you need to give a fuck about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).
KOSA is a act currently being talked about in congress that is labeled as a act that prevents minors from seeing 18+ content. It being labeled as that seems okay and good, yes, but that’s not what this bill is about.
KOSA, if put in place, will make so the attorney general of each state gets to pick which platforms will be banned in their state. And this doesn’t been censorship of minors, this means censorship of everyone of ALL AGES.
“My attorney general wouldn’t ban this sites.” Yes, they might not. But don’t think about yourself right now. MILLIONS of people will be without spaces to escape too. Millions of people will be without access to websites that allows them to talk to people. Millions of queer people wouldn’t be allowed on to places they were originally welcomed.
“Okay? But they’re only trying to ban nsfw content?” And what do all republications see as nsfw? Queer people. Especially trans people.
KOSA is just another bill that will allow nation wide bans on topics such as sex, gender, sexuality, and more. This act does nothing more except erase queer people from online spaces, and further pushes the anti-trans beliefs (and genocide) circling our country right now.
Y’all need to give a shit about this bill like you should still be giving a shit about the RESTRICT ACT (which still hasn’t been turned down yet btw).
This act opens the door from any site such of tumblr and quotev to be banned, to YouTube if your AG doesn’t like it for ANY reason. And don’t forget, VPN’s can only do so much, and the government already wants to ban those.
What can you do? CALL YOUR FUCKING CONGRESS REPS. EMAIL THEM. I don’t give a shit, all I care about is this bill that doesn’t speak for the people getting blocked and not being put in place. Bills like this further push our nations descent into facism. And if there’s a way to prevent that, we better fucking do it.
KOSA
CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEMBER
Doing a fun little Writing Game over the next few days. Every day we create a new aspect of our character.
Let's decide on some character traits: What kind of positive character traits does our character have?
Tell me in the tags what character trait you like in a character!
Name | Hair Colour | Eye Colour | Physical Feature
@wordsnquotes | @wnq-unknown
As someone who works in a bookstore I will say the HEA rule for romance will probably always apply but I think the monster lovers are coming out of the closet(or maybe cave). More people are admitting to reading it, so more readers are talking about it and recommending it.
🌼?
🌼 -- least favorite genre to write
SO I'm actually gonna say Romance and Erotica, which is a shame because I actually enjoy writing romance and sex, but I find the expectations readers have for those genres to be so strict that I don't think I'd enjoy writing a ROMANCE novel if you get me
like I see romancelandia refusing to accept or read books with characters that don't look a certain way -- last I saw people were outright saying they just recast every man as Henry Cavill if he doesn't have That Look or refusing to read it if he doesnt and I dislike that a lot? Like obvi I get people will see characters as they do but to get a character description that like, you don't like and just deciding oh he's Henry Cavill now, idk man
I also really dislike the requirement for every book to have a happily ever after or a happy for now to be Hella stifling because it limits what KINDS of romance I can write, maybe I wanna write something more tragic idk
the rigid and strict expectations and refusal to accept deviations in the genre make writing for it feel really stifling and unsatisfying, but that's just me -- I know a lot of folks love writing it snd hey that's great, I just don't don't enjoy it personally
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
Krishnamurti | @wnq-philosophy (via wnq-writers)
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